Introduction

Climate risk increasingly affects the resilience of food systems across the world and exacerbates the preexisting risks and vulnerabilities. Heat waves, droughts, floods, storms, and other hazards as well as slow-onset processes impact food producers and supply and value chains. They cause economic and non-economic losses and damages that threaten the livelihoods, lives, and well-being of communities and individuals and can become drivers of migration and displacement. The threats of climate change on food systems and livelihoods are also increasing the numbers of human mobility, altering the patterns of human mobility. This manifests in different ways based on socioeconomic characteristics, gender, and age, with women, youth, and impoverished households often facing the brunt of impacts. While climate risks and threats on food systems leads to human induced migration and displacement, the flows of migration also leads to creation of food security, depletion of resources in receiving communities leading to social, environmental and economic issues, impacting food security of communities. 

To ensure that the planet moves towards a resilience and food secure one, it is important to address climate risk in a holistic and inclusive manner. Further, it is crucial to engage key stakeholders from different sectors, exchange experiences, and coordinate efforts to manage risks and build resilience. The existing interconnections and overlaps among climate change, food systems, and human mobility offer the opportunity for long term holistic planning for food systems, through interdisciplinary research, cross-sectoral approaches, and multi-actor partnerships. This parallel session of the UN Food Systems Summit’s Presummit session focuses on exploring interlinkages between these thematic areas. 

Objectives

• To explore interlinkages among the thematic areas of food security, climate and disaster risk, and human mobility.

• Identify links between different policy frameworks and international processes, and collecting good practices from around the globe.

• Identify avenues to generate foresight and evidence-driven solutions through an interactive sharing of experiences, ideas and lessons learnt

• Provide a space for initiating activities for building synergies across the thematic areas of food systems, climate and disaster resilience and climate induced human mobility.

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  Just transition in the energy sector
  - Key elements to ensure just transition in the energy sector
  - Gaps and challenges faced in integrating aspects and strategies of just transition in the energy sector
  - Institutional structures and role of actors in achieving just transition in the energy sector
  - Entry points and opportunities for integrating just transition into climate policy initiatives and actions
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

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  Ensuring just transition in the food sector
  - Key elements of just transition and their relation to global and local food systems
  - Gaps and challenges faced in integrating aspects and strategies of just transition in the food sector
  - Institutional structures and role of actors in achieving just transition in the food sector
  - Entry points and opportunities for integrating just transition into climate policy initiatives and actions
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

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  Gender, inclusion, social protection, and cross-cutting aspects related to just transition
  - Key cross-cutting aspects related to just transition
  - Interlinks for integration of just transition with climate action and into different climate policy and action processes
  - Impacts of COVID-19 and the role of recovery actions in contributing toward just transition
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives